2 Youcht Adi
Adi Youcht joined the Law Faculty at the College of Management Academic Studies in the Fall of 2021. She holds a PhD, LL.M (magna cum laud), and LL.B (magna cum laud) from the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. She is a former Visiting Research Fellow at Columbia Law School, and a former Visiting Researcher at Berkeley Law School. She completed her postdoctoral studies at the Sciences Po École de Droit and L’École Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Prior to her doctoral studies, she articled clerk at the State Attorney’s Office Department of Criminal Appeals in Jerusalem.
Youcht’s main areas of interest are Tort Law, Criminal Law, Sociology and Philosophy of Law and Bioethics, Law and Medicine, Body and Law, Jurisprudence of Identities, Disability Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Science and Technology Studies, and Law & Culture.
2 Katsabian Tammy
Tammy Katsabian (PhD) is a senior lecturer at the Haim Striks Faculty of Law at the College of Management Academic Studies. She is the founder and moderator of the labor law and technology lab. Her research is dealing with labor rights in the digital reality, with a specific focus on questions of privacy, equality, working from home (“telework”) and the gig economy. Tammy has a PhD degree from the law faculty of the Hebrew University, an L.L.M degree from Yale Law School and Tel-Aviv University (cum laude) and an L.L.B degree from Bar Ilan University (cum laude). She was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Law School and was awarded a Fulbright-ISEF Postdoctoral Fellowship and Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her post doctorate research project. In the past, Tammy was the executive director of the Clinical Legal Education Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and served as the clinical and academic advisor of the Women’s Rights at Work Clinic. Tammy’s work was published in top-ranking journals, such as the Modern Law Review, McGill Law Journal, and Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law.
Research areas and interests: Labor Law; Women’s Studies; Law and Society; Law and Technology
1 Bar-On Yaara
Bar-on is the Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Studies at The College of Management Academic Studies (COLMAN). She was previously the Dean of the School of Education at COLMAN and prior to that was the president of Oranim Academic College of Education (2013-2019) and a member of the board of the National Library of Israel.
She was formerly a fellow at the Mandel School of Educational Leadership (1997-1999); headed the Education Ministry department that oversaw implementation of the Shenhar & Kremnitzer reports, which dealt with Pluralism in Judaism and Civics+Peace education, respectively (1999-2002); and served as deputy-president for academic affairs at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (2003-2012). Bar-On is a social historian and has published three books on the lives of women (in Hebrew): Crowded Delivery Room: Gender and Public Opinion in Early Modern Gynecology (2000); Sunrise in the Mediterranean: An American Women in the Labor Battalions ( 2005); and A Jewish Witch in the Court of Louis XIII (2011). She holds a doctorate from Tel Aviv University.
2 Komlik Oleg
Dr. Oleg Komlik is Head of the Undergraduate Program in Behavioral Sciences and Lecturer in Organizational and Economic Sociology. The study of the influence of power, interests, and ideas on economic policymaking, institutions, law, and organizations shapes his professional journey.
Dr. Komlik is a founder, editor-in-chief, and lead writer of the Economic Sociology & Political Economy global academic community that brings together more than 70,000 members from about 160 countries. He also serves as the Chairman of the Junior Sociologists Network of the International Sociological Association and Treasurer of the Israeli Sociological Society.
In 2017, Dr. Komlik was selected as Young Global Changer by G20’s Research and Policy Advice Network.
2 Shani Guy
Guy Shani holds a PhD in Sociology from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on the middle class in Israel and the relationship between class, place, and identity.
Guy studied the housing choices of middle-class households in Tel Aviv and Beersheba and published articles in leading journals about the local formation of aesthetic tastes, attitudes toward diversity and patterns of entering adulthood. In addition, he published articles dealing with political unfriending in Facebook, and with the violent events of May 2021 from an urban perspective. These days, Guy is researching, together with Prof. Uri Schwartz, Facebook groups in the mixed city of Jaffa. At the college, Guy teaches various courses in sociological thinking, sociology of education and life course, sociology of young-adult and more.
2 Yonatan-Leus Refael
Dr. Refael Yonatan-Leus is a licensed clinical psychologist and a senior lecturer (assistant professor) in the master’s program in clinical psychology. Dr. Yonatan-Leus completed his three degrees in psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are quantitative research in psychotherapy with an emphasis on “positive” variables of mental health (such as honesty creativity and playfulness), the therapist’s influence on the effectiveness of psychological treatment, psychoanalytic theory, professional ethics, the effectiveness of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with severe and complex mental disorders, and economical cost effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the context of healthcare cost. His areas of teaching in the clinical program include short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychopathology, and clinical interview. He practices individual, couple and group psychotherapy both in a public mental health clinic and in private practice.
1 Jacoby Gady
Professor Gady Jacoby, Dean of the School of Economics, is an alumnus of the Hebrew University (Bachelor of Economics and Accounting and Master in Finance) and the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto (PhD). He joined the College of Management Academic Studies as the School’s Dean in October of 2021. Previously, Professor Jacoby served as Dean of the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba in Canada from 2018 to 2021 and before that as Associate Dean Research and Graduate Programs at the same institution.
He serves as a Subject Editor for Emerging Markets Review and in the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money and as an Associate Editor for Finance Research Letters. He is also co-chair of Cross Country Perspectives in Finance (Special Issue Conference). Professor Jacoby’s research focuses on asset pricing, behavioral finance, sustainable finance, and international finance.
2 Rosin Odelia
Dr. Odelia Rosin is currently Vice Dean of the business faculty, a health economist and lecturer. In her former role as Dean of the Bnei-Brak campus, Dr. Rosin founded and managed the academic programs of the Haredi campus and the preparatory studies in the College of Management. Before joining COLMAN she worked as a software developer for over a decade and taught at Bar-Ilan University.
2 Arar Khalid
Khalid Arar, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, Head of the Department of Counselor Education, College of Management Academic Studies (COLMAN), and adjunct in the School Improvement Doctoral Program, College of Education, Texas State University and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Leadership in Education and Middle-East regional editor of Journal of Education Administration and History and a member of the editorial boards, Journal of Education Administration, Leadership and Policy in Schools, International Journal of Educational Management, Higher Education Policy, Applied Research in Higher Education. Member of UCEA Center for the Study of International School Leadership. For the past two decades, he conducted studies in the Middle East, Europe and North America on the issues of equity, diversity and social justice in K-12 and higher education. His recent books include: Migrants, Refugees and Global Challenges in Higher Education (Peter Lang Publishing, with Kussai Haj-Yehia, David Ross, & Yasar Kondakci); Education, Immigration and Migration: Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World (Emerald Publishing, with Jeffrey Brooks & Ira Bogotch); Turbulence, Empowerment and Marginalization in International Education Governance Systems (Emerald Publishing, with Alison Taysum), and School Leadership for Refugees’ Education (Routledge).
3 Packer Shimon
Mr. Shimon Packer, MBA, serves as the International Programs Manager at the College of Management Academic Studies (COLMAN) and as a lecturer at its Faculty of Business Administration.
Shimon’s areas of interest include International Business, Business Ethics, and Sustainable and Impact Entrepreneurship. Previously, he served as the Outreach Working Group Lead at UNITE2030, a UN-affiliated organization supporting the Sustainable Development Goals, where he coordinated activities for 16,000 activists across 170 countries to accelerate action on global challenges.
He holds a BA in Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy from Reichman University, with a specialization in Counter-Terrorism Studies, and was a Fellow of the Public Diplomacy Program. He also earned an MBA specializing in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from COLMAN.
Shimon has worked in the Prime Minister’s Office, organized TEDxIDCHerzliya, and is a Captain in Reserves. In addition to his current role, he serves as Deputy Chairman of the Israeli Model UN Association (IMUNA). He is also a triathlete and chess enthusiast, passionate about fostering cross-border cooperation and advancing innovative solutions to global challenges.